;Article Twelve : No allowances were to be made for & annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne . The clergy should apply to their bishops for financial donations and benefits, which shall be given free to any church of France.
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A royal proclamation in 1418, issued after the election of Martin V maintained in opposition to the pope " all the privileges and franchises of the kingdom ", put an end to the custom of annates, limited the rights of the Roman court in collecting benefices, and forbade the sending to Rome of articles of gold or silver.
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Pietro and Giovanni Berardi, Archbishop of Taranto, were co-presidents of the Council of Basel appointed by Pope Eugene IV . He and Berardi protested the Council after the eighteenth session ( 26 June 1434 ) re-affirmed the " Haec sancta " and the twenty-first session ( 9 June 1435 ) abolished the annates.
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Article Twelve No allowances were to be made for & annates or for any other purpose to the court of Rome, the vice legation at Avignon, or to the nunciature at Lucerne . [ 3 ] The clergy should apply to their bishops for financial donations and benefits, which shall be given free to any church of France.
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The ordinary income of the pope for the year 1517 had been reckoned at about 580, 000 ducats, of which 420, 000 came from the States of the Church, 100, 000 from annates, and 60, 000 from the composition tax instituted by Sixtus IV . These sums, together with the considerable amounts accruing from indulgences, jubilees, and special fees, vanished as quickly as they were received.
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Of abbeys, it says that " the fruit of [ the abbeys ], according to the assessment of the tithes, [ shall be ] 200 " livres tournois "; in Italy and Spain, however, [ it ] shall not exceed the annual value of 60 " livres tournois ", making confirmations or canonical provisions for those that belong to others . " By subsuming Spanish and Italian interests under those of the French and remitting certain annates to France, the concordat increased the prestige of the French.
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Bishops have, in virtue of their God-given powers, full authority within their dioceses in all matters of dispensation, patronage and the like; papal bulls, briefs, etc ., and the decrees of the Roman Congregations are only of binding force in each diocese when sanctioned by the bishop; nunciatures, as hitherto conceived, are to cease; the oath of allegiance to the pope demanded of bishops since Pope Gregory VII's time is to be altered so as to bring it into conformity with episcopal rights; annates and the fees payable for the pallium and confirmation are to be lowered and, in the event of the pallium or confirmation being refused, German archbishops and bishops are to be free to exercise their office under the protection of the emperor; with the Church tribunals of first and second instance ( episcopal and metropolitan ) the Apostolic Nuncio to Cologne is not to interfere, and, though appeal to Rome is allowed under certain national safe-guards, the opinion is expressed that it would be better to set up in each archdiocese a final court of appeal representing the provincial synod; finally the emperor is prayed to use his influence with the pope to secure the assembly of a national council in order to remove the grievances left unredressed by the Council of Trent.
